diff --git a/lib/gui/pages/main/controllers/image-selection.js b/lib/gui/pages/main/controllers/image-selection.js
index 8afdfa11..37882e2e 100644
--- a/lib/gui/pages/main/controllers/image-selection.js
+++ b/lib/gui/pages/main/controllers/image-selection.js
@@ -124,7 +124,18 @@ module.exports = function(
   this.selectImageByPath = (imagePath) => {
     imageStream.getImageMetadata(imagePath)
       .then(this.selectImage)
-      .catch(ErrorService.reportException);
+      .catch((error) => {
+        const imageError = errors.createUserError({
+          title: 'Error opening image',
+          description: messages.error.openImage({
+            imageBasename: path.basename(imagePath),
+            errorMessage: error.message
+          })
+        });
+
+        OSDialogService.showError(imageError);
+        analytics.logException(error);
+      });
   };
 
   /**
diff --git a/lib/shared/messages.js b/lib/shared/messages.js
index 16b81c3e..1a91e778 100644
--- a/lib/shared/messages.js
+++ b/lib/shared/messages.js
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ module.exports = {
 
     invalidImage: _.template('<%= image.path %> is not a supported image type.'),
 
+    openImage: _.template([
+      'Something went wrong while opening <%= imageBasename %>\n\n',
+      'Error: <%= errorMessage %>'
+    ].join('')),
+
     elevationRequired: _.template('This should should be run with root/administrator permissions.'),
 
     flashFailure: _.template([
diff --git a/tests/image-stream/data/zip/zip-deflate64.zip b/tests/image-stream/data/zip/zip-deflate64.zip
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9fd4405
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/image-stream/data/zip/zip-deflate64.zip differ
diff --git a/tests/image-stream/tester.js b/tests/image-stream/tester.js
index dd654273..ff5ddb80 100644
--- a/tests/image-stream/tester.js
+++ b/tests/image-stream/tester.js
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ exports.expectError = function(file, errorMessage, errorDetail) {
       m.chai.expect(error.message).to.equal(errorMessage);
       if (errorDetail) {
         m.chai.expect(error.description).to.contain(errorDetail);
+        m.chai.expect(error.description).to.be.a.string;
+        m.chai.expect(error.description.length > 0).to.be.true;
       }
-      m.chai.expect(error.description).to.be.a.string;
-      m.chai.expect(error.description.length > 0).to.be.true;
     });
   });
 };
diff --git a/tests/image-stream/zip.spec.js b/tests/image-stream/zip.spec.js
index e9e58d42..7c24a43d 100644
--- a/tests/image-stream/zip.spec.js
+++ b/tests/image-stream/zip.spec.js
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ describe('ImageStream: ZIP', function() {
         'Invalid archive image');
     });
 
+    describe('given a zip with an unsupported compression method', function() {
+      tester.expectError(
+        path.join(ZIP_PATH, 'zip-deflate64.zip'),
+        'unsupported compression method: 9');
+    });
+
     describe('given a zip directory containing multiple images', function() {
       tester.expectError(
         path.join(ZIP_PATH, 'zip-directory-multiple-images.zip'),